free-labourer

Updated: July 1, 2026

"You can go on picking-up in this man's place," he said to the jackeroo, whose reference showed him to be a non-union man a "free-labourer", as the pastoralists had it, or, in plain shed terms, "a blanky scab". He was now in the comfortable position of a non-unionist in a union shed who had jumped into a sacked man's place.

Henry Lawson - Over the Sliprails